Encantado: Pink Dolphin of the Amazon

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Encantado Pink Dolphin of the Amazon
In what ways are PINK DOLPHINS mysterious?
Compiled by Terry Sams PES

• by Sy Montgomery

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Study Skills

• Genre Expository Nonfiction
• Comprehension Skill
  Compare and Contrast
• Comprehension Strategy Visualize
• Comprehension Review Skill Generalize
• Vocabulary
  Multi-Meaning Words

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Summary
One of the most mysterious animals on the planet
is the pink dolphin. Meet this unique and
fascinating creature as you
explore the rain forest with your
South American guide.

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Genre Expository Nonfiction

• Expository Nonfiction provides factual
  information about a topic. As you read, look for
  facts about pink dolphins to add to your
  knowledge of animals.

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Comprehension Skill Tested Compare and Contrast
TE416

• A Comparison tells how two or more things are
  alike.
• A Contrast tells how they are different
• Clue words such as like or as show similarities.
• Clue words such as but or unlike show differences.

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Compare and Contrast PB 163
Australian Rain Forest
South American Rain Forest
Alike many animals live here 1.__________________
__________
Different scarlet macaw 4.______________________
5.______________________
Different birds of paradise 2.___________________
__ 3.______________________
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Grammar Review Pronouns

• Pronouns are words that take the place of nouns.
• Pronouns that take place of a singular noun are
  singular pronouns
• I, me, he, she, him, her, and it
• Pronouns that take the place of plural nouns are
  plural pronouns.
• we, us, they, them

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Grammar Review Subject and Object Pronouns TE
439e

• A subject pronoun is used as the subject of a
  sentence.
• I, you, he, she, it, we, and they
• Object pronouns is used in the predicate of the
  sentence after an action verb or with a
  preposition.
• me, you, him, her, it, us ,and them
• Using pronouns makes writing less wordy by
  avoiding repeated nouns.

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Comprehension Strategy Visualize TE 416

• Good readers visualize as they read.
• This means they create pictures in their minds.
• Sensory words such as sticky and crackle can help
  you experience what you are reading.

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Comprehension Skill Review Generalize TE 425

• A generalization is a broad statement or rule
  that applies to many examples.
• Clue words all, most, always, usually,
  generally

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Comprehension Skill Review Generalize TE 425

• Some generalizations are valid, which means that
  they are supported by facts or details. Some are
  faulty. Which means that they are not supported.

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Vocabulary SkillMultiple-Meaning Words

• When you read you may find the meaning of a word
  you know does not make sense in a sentence
• This is because the word is a multiple-meaning
  word, or a word with more than one meaning.
• For example, story can mean an account of what
  happened. It can also mean a lie, or
  falsehood.

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Research/Study Skills Poster/Announcement TE
439L

• An announcement tells about an
• upcoming event. It usually answers
• the questions Who? What? When?
• Where? Why? and How?
• A poster is a type of announcement that is large.
  It often uses colors and large type to emphasize
  information and to grab readers attention.

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Fun Stuff and Practice

• Multi-meaning Words
• Compare and Contrast
• Compare Contrast PowerPoint
• Rain Forest
• Pronouns
• About Pink Dolphins
• More Facts

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Weekly Fluency Check -Fluency TE 439a

• Fluency is when you group words that go together,
  pausing after phrases and sentences.
• This makes reading sound smooth and helps convey
  meaning.
• Read aloud the last 4 paragraphs of pg. 428.
• Have students echo read.

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Question of the WeekTE 416m

• What can explain animal behavior?

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Day 2 - Question of the Day

• Why do you think a pink dolphin is called
  encantado, or enchanted?

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Day 3 - Question of the Day

• Why do you think the pink dolphins behavior
  remains a mystery today?

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Day 4 - Question of the Day - Review

• Do you think it is important to find out more
  about the Mysterious Animals? Why or why not?

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Review Questions

1. How are pink dolphins and ocean dolphins alike?
2. Why would ocean dolphins not be able to survive
   in the Amazon River?
3. Why was one section called Nightmare Dream
   World?
4. Why are pink dolphins difficult to study?

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Review Questions

1. Why do dolphins send out beams from their
   foreheads?
2. How are pink dolphins and people alike according
   to this selection?
3. How are dolphins and submarines alike?
4. Why does this author seem to speak directly to
   the reader?

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Vocabulary - Say It

• flexible
• enchanted
• pulses

• aquarium
• surface
• glimpses
• dolphins

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More Words to Know

• destination
• teem
• submerged
• agility
• endowed
• relationship

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surface

• the top of the ground or soil, or of a body of
  water or other liquid

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aquarium

• building used for showing collections of live
  fish, water animals, and water plants

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pulses

• regular, measured beats

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dolphins

• any of numerous sea mammals related to the whale,
  but smaller. Dolphins have beaklike snouts and
  remarkable intelligence.

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glimpses

• short, quick views or looks

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enchanted

• delighted greatly charmed magical

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flexible

• easily bent not stiff bending without breaking
  stretchable

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teem

• to be full of abound swarm

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destination

• place to which someone or something is going or
  being sent

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submerged

• put under water covered with water

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agility

• the ability to move quickly and easily nimbleness

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relationship

• condition that exists between people or groups
  that deal with each other

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endowed

• born with provided with some ability, quality,
  or talent

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Pink dolphins live in rivers, not in the ocean.
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Pink dolphins live in rivers, not in the ocean.
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The cat was endowed with a mysterious sense of
geography.
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The cat was endowed with a mysterious sense of
geography.
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Pink dolphins are so flexible they can even touch
their tail to their nose.
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Pink dolphins are so flexible they can even touch
their tail to their nose.
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If you take an expedition to an aquarium or zoo,
you will most likely see bottle-nosed dolphins.
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If you take an expedition to an aquarium or zoo,
you will most likely see
bottle-nosed dolphins.
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Dolphins can also send out pulses of sound from
inside their foreheads.
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Dolphins can also send out pulses of sound from
inside their foreheads.
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The tangarana trees hollow stems teem with
thousands of stinging black ants.
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The tangarana trees hollow stems teem with
thousands of stinging black ants.
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Moises finally reveals the destination at dolphin
lake.
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Moises finally reveals the destination at dolphin
lake.
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All you can see at first is a pink shimmer on the
waters surface.
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All you can see at first is a pink shimmer on the
waters surface.
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Maybe the three glimpses you had were all the
same dolphin.
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Maybe the three glimpses you had were all the
same dolphin.
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These pink dolphins of the rain-forest swim in a
submerged jungle.
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These pink dolphins of the rain-forest swim in a
submerged jungle.
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Encantado means enchanted in Portuguese and in
Spanish.
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Encantado means enchanted in Portuguese and in
Spanish.
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The pink dolphins move with agility through the
submerged jungle.
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The pink dolphins move with agility through the
submerged jungle.
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The cat, Sugar, bonded with the Woods, and their
relationship grew over the years.
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The cat, Sugar, bonded with the Woods, and their
relationship grew over the years.
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Writing Assignment Write an Advertisement

• Think of a place you know and like.
• Imagine you have been asked to write a
  description of this place for a travel brochure.
• Describe the place using sensory words.
• Make it sound appealing and attractive.

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Spelling Words Final le, al, en

• frighten
• tangle
• mumble
• oval
• marble

• spiral
• animal
• paddle
• diagonal
• threaten

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Spelling Words Final le, al, en

• national
• jungle
• given
• eleven
• chicken

• citizen
• single
• needle
• natural
• several

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CHALLENGE

• strengthen
• cubicle
• knuckle
• individual
• three-dimensional

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This Weeks Word Wall Words
Click and type your own words for this week
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Lets review our Spelling words. Watch carefully
because they will flash on the screen for just a
moment. We can clap as we spell the word, or we
might just practice reading the words.
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chicken
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eleven
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given
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jungle
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national
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several
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natural
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needle
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single
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citizen
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threaten
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diagonal
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paddle
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animal
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spiral
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marble
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oval
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mumble
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tangle
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frighten
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strengthen
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knuckle
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individual
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cubicle
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three-dimensional